I just bought new Klipsch speakers...I already had the receiver from before but the speakers are great. I had floor standing Polk which are good for listening to music real loud but with two little kids I can't do that much anymore...I like the smaller speakers with the sub. it makes it better, IMO for movies that you don't have the volume jacked way up to hear the dialog that the bass is too high, if that makes sense...BTW something I leared is when something is in Dolby 5.1 or 6.1 or 7.1 the .1 is the subwoofer there are signals being sent to the sub so if you don't have one you miss some sounds.